Elected President Joe Biden blasted President Trump on Monday for what he described as a painfully slow implementation of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Biden spoke in Atlanta while campaigning with the two Democratic challengers on the eve of Georgia’s twin runoff elections in the Senate, which will decide whether Republicans retain their Senate majority. The former vice president has said it is a disgrace that is now happening with the vaccine and says a divine start has come from this government. ‘
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But Biden made no direct mention of a controversial telephone conversation between President and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, which went viral on Sunday and dominated the headlines in the media.
At one point in the leaked conversation, which the Washington Post reported for the first time, Trump apparently told the Republican Secretary of State, “All I want to do is. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is more than we have because we won the state. ‘
According to the state’s certified election results, this is one vote more than the 11,779 votes that Biden Trump won in Georgia. The ballots in Georgia were counted three times – the original count on election day, a mandatory retelling and a retelling requested by the president’s campaign. Trump refused to concede to Biden and claimed for two months that there was massive voter fraud in Georgia and five other states where he was assaulted by the former vice president.
Biden urged Trump to “whine and complain” rather than act as president. “I do not know why he still wants the job,” Biden said of Trump. “He does not want to do the work.”
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Biden joined Democratic Senate challengers Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in a drive-in rally just south of downtown Atlanta. The presidential election was held a few hours before Trump went to fight Republican Sens Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in Dalton, in the heavy Republican northwest corner of Georgia.
The rally of the election night by the outgoing GOP president and his Democratic successor was the second in Georgia since the run-off campaign began after the November general election.
The balance of power for the next Senate coming out of the November election is 50 Republicans and 48 Democrats. That means Democrats must both win the by-elections in Georgia to make a 50-50 Senate. If that happens, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be the casting vote, giving her party a razor-sharp majority in the chamber. The Democrats have a slim majority in the House.
But if Democrats do not run in the two elections, the GOP will retain the chamber, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Will retain his position – and the ability to make many of the proposals that Biden hope to pass through Congress, thwart.
The Tuesday vote in Georgia took place because the state law stipulates a rollout if no candidate reaches 50% of the vote, and that Perdue only avoided a rollout in November and won 49.75% of the vote. Ossoff follows with about 87,000 votes.
In the other race, Loeffler won nearly 26% of the vote in a huge special election of 20 candidates to fill the last two years of the term of former GOP senator Johnny Isakson, who has resigned. Loeffler was appointed to his post last December. Her opponent Warnock won nearly 33% of the vote.
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For Biden, who in November became the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry Georgia in more than a quarter of a century, Monday’s rally involved everything. Early turnout rose in the Democratic strongholds of Atlanta – and the surrounding suburbs of the capital – and Democrats did not want to give up on the eve of the election.
“Georgia, the whole nation is looking forward to you leading us forward,” Biden stressed. “The power is literally in your hands. Unlike any time in my career, one state, one state can map the course not only for the next four years, but also for the next generation.”
Biden added: “By choosing Jon and the pastor, you will be voting to give the states the necessary resources to distribute the vaccines.”
Only about four million Americans received the first dose of the COVID vaccine, with just over 13 million doses, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Logistical problems are affecting the Trump administration’s distribution efforts, especially states that are struggling to deliver doses already sent by the federal government.
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Last week, Trump aimed the states at the slow rollout, tweeting: “The federal government has distributed the vaccines to the states. Now it’s up to the states to administer. Move!”
In his comments Monday, Biden also highlighted the inability of Congress and the current government to increase coronavirus relief tests on Americans from $ 600 to $ 2,000.
And he predicted: “If you send Jon and the Reverend to Washington, the $ 2000 checks will go out the door, which will restore hope and decency and honor to so many people who are currently struggling. And if you send back Senators Perdue and Loeffler “To Washington, those checks will never get there. It’s just that simple.”
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Biden emphasizes that “by choosing Jon and the pastor, you can break the grid that has gripped Washington and the country.”
The former vice president also slammed Loeffler and Perdue, a strong supporter of the president, who backed Trump when he tried to block Georgia’s certified election results.
“You now have two senators who think they are not working for you, but for Trump,” Biden accused. “You have two senators who think their loyalty to Trump, not Georgia.”